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 Eric Schmitt Wait For The Night Release Day : April 11th Coming out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a wonderful new project by a writer you may not have heard of. But famed songwriter and musician Verlon Thompson has said, “I place Eric Schmitt near the very top of any list of songwriters…from anywhere.” Schmitt’s new LP, Little Bird, covers a range of human experiences, from the most mundane desire to stay up late and sing with friends, to the need to carry on and make our lives whole after loss and heartache. It’s full of real characters: a sturdy woman who works at Home Depot and dates a free-loading musician; a philandering rascal; a rejected lover who won’t drink during the daylight hours; a person who grieves for someone by painting doors and staring up at the sky. It’s set in the streets and by the levees of Baton Roug, the gulf highways of south Louisiana, the cedar skies of Central Texas. And it runs right along that border between what’s real and unavoidable in these charaters’ lives and what they dream and hope for. The musical styles of the songs are varied. They’re part folk, part country, part blues, and part something undefineable. Under it all is an acoustic base, sometimes open-tune finger-picked, sometimes roughly strummed, sometimes deftly plucked in odd harmonic shapes. Chords are inverted, dissonate tones occasionally appear and persist, blending and pulling at the center of the songs. Steel guitars and harmonicas talk to each other. And when the song turns to darker ideas, cellos and violins swell together in deep expressive tones. It’s a sometimes sparse and sometimes rich musical arrangement of the scenes and the stories depicted in the songs. This project was recorded on an eight-track tape machine at Clay Parker’s studio in Gonzales, Louisiana. Eric and Clay have played music together for years, and this friendship can be heard in the production. It’s simple and authentic. What’s needed is there, but nothing else. And what’s there is pure Eric and Clay, and true to the small circle of close friends who contributed. There are no Nashville ringers on this record, only a handful of excellent musicians that Eric has been honored to meet and work with in his time as a songwriter and performer in the Baton Rouge region. It’s clean, but not too slick. Smooth, but not over polished. Like the places and the characters in the songs, the sound of this record is authentic and real. It’s a distillation of various musical influences and life experiences. For Verlon Thompson, “[L]istening to Wait For The Night is like sipping a glass of good blended whiskey. A slightly familiar but distinct blend of all the songwriters I’ve loved and admired over the years…distilled, matured and labeled as…Genuine Eric Schmitt.” Tracks: 1. “BR Blues” 2:56 2. “Little Bird” 4:32 3. “Louisiana” 4:10 4. “One of These Days” 3:56 5. “My Red Door” 3:10 6. “Buckets” 2:25 7. “Floating” 3:45 8. “Fool’s Parade” 3:50 * The word “sh*t” as in “holy sh*t” occurs in this track 9. “Tattoos, Diapers, and Pills” 4:10 10. “Midnight Song” 2:41 11. “Wait for the Night” 4:41 FCC Warning Track 8 Focus Tracks 2, 3, 4 Producer: Clay Parker and Eric Schmitt Recording engineer: Clay Parker All Songs written By Eric Schmitt Website: EricSchmittMusic.com Opmerkingen zijn gesloten.
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